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This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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Geography Markup Language

TAP Endorsed Specification
Description
 

GML provides a means of encoding spatial information for both data transport and storage. It is an XML coding for geographic features.

Complete description

Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
2.0  
2001.02.20  
Status
 
2003.01.29 Version 3 has been released by Open Geospatial Consortium. Endorsement is pending
2001.06.12 Endorsed by the Geoconnections Technology Advisory Panel
Other Info
 

GML 3 is under development by the Open Geospatial Consortium.
The GML 2.0 and 3.0 specifications were developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

See also GML default styling and GML location.

effective 2002.07.02